The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in
Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international
forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their
knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management
and evaluation of information systems in developing countries.

EJISDC focuses on the digital divide. Our aim is to
situate contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully global context. Outside of
North America, Western Europe, Australasia and Japan, diverse societies are
making sense of technological advances in ways unique to their cultures and
histories. ICT investments can and do contribute to improved quality of life,
even where priorities for investments in information systems compete with the
provision of the basic necessities of life such as decent housing, clean water
and primary healthcare. ICT investments are able to leverage the values of
assets in developing countries in much the same way as they do in developed
countries, sometimes to a far greater extent because of the lower starting
point and lower costs.

We support and encourage the submission of research
papers that focus on novel IS-related innovations, imagined, created and
co-created within and for the developing context by the people on the ground.
This requires a shift away from the techno-centric approach to innovation and a
closer examination of the work undertaken by local communities to improve their
daily lives.

We do not publish purely technical papers or papers
that have no developing country context. The fact that the authors are based in
a developing country is insufficient. All papers must explicitly reference one
or more contexts that pertain to developing countries.

Further, we discourage authors from submitting
papers that merely test well-worn theories developed in the Western context. We
note that many authors take a well-established theory (such as TAM, UTAUT,
ISSM, TPB) and unreflexively collect data from a developing country in order to
test if the theory/model also applies in that context. These authors typically
do not try to situate the theory/model in the new context at all - few or no
local contextual details are provided and we learn very little about the local context
at all. All research articles should be contextually detailed and specific.
Where possible, we hope that authors will identify local contextual or cultural
factors that influence the adoption/use of technology. We are not interested in
intentions to use technology - we are interested in actual behaviour, ideally
over some period of time, and with a commensurate level of contextual detail.

We appreciate that the use of IS for education is
an important activity in developing countries. However, there are many existing
journals in the computer-supported education space. Submissions in this domain
must be clearly situated in a developing country context and must explicitly
make a contribution to knowledge beyond what we know already. This requires
careful research motivation and identification of a research question that
challenges current practices. Unreflexive studies of how one specific
technology is used in the classroom will not be entertained.